Supreme Magus novel Chapter 362

’I don’t like this situation.’ Lith thought.

’The shaman seems to always know where I am. She caught us unprepared twice, so it’s likely that if I stand for too long in the same place, she may attack us from a distance.’

’Agreed.’ Solus replied. She had regained about half of her strength, but they couldn’t afford to wait much longer. If the Sergeant returned with the reinforcements the crystal would be lost.

’We need to aim for a quick exchange. We have to get there fast, before she can siphon any element so that we can Blink in for the kill.’

Lith nodded. That kind of approach was outside his comfort zone, but there weren’t many options left. He took off, flying at full speed towards the location where he had killed most of the members of the Grey Wolf tribe.

Ragh’Ash hadn’t gotten far. Moving the holy crystal was a delicate job. She couldn’t fly with it. If anything happened and the spell was broken, the holy crystal would be lost. She just made it float a few centimeters from the ground, pushing it while she walked back towards the camp.

The silver lining was that thanks to the constant contact, she could sweep her surroundings from time to time to check on Lith’s whereabouts. As soon as Ragh’Ash noticed him getting closer, she knew only one of them would come out alive from their next meeting.

<"go back="" to="" the="" village="" and="" hide!="" if="" i="" don’t="" return="" within="" a="" few="" minutes,="" run="" away="" and="" never="" turn="" back!"=""></"go> Ragh’Ash ordered. The youths never thought, even for a second, that the shaman was doing that to protect them.

Her only purpose was to protect the last members of the tribe, who were too weak to be of any use in actual combat. Ragh’Ash had seen how Lith had turned her own living bomb against her orc warriors. It was a mistake she couldn’t afford to repeat.

She watched the two youths disappearing in the woods as she pondered about her strategy. Ragh’Ash wasn’t used to fight alone, without any warrior providing her assistance.

’The demons’ magic is unpredictable.’ She thought. ’My only option is to overpower them quickly with the help of the holy crystal. If only that stupid beast helped us earlier, I wouldn’t be in dire straits now. What kind of pet doesn’t protect its owner?’

The earth trembled below her feet. It was the only sign that the creature was still following her. Ragh’Ash called it her pet, but its motives were still a mystery. It had helped her to survive many times, yet its timing was always unreliable at best.

Ragh’Ash placed her hands on the crystal, channeling air magic through it to conjure a huge storm cloud above her position. Monsters’ mastery of magic was shallow. Due to their Fallen nature, they would seldom be able to research complex spells and would even more rarely pass them down.

In a ’might makes right’ society, sharing knowledge or power was like digging your own grave. That limited the shaman’s knowledge to the first three tiers of spells. Thanks to the holy crystal though, Ragh’Ash could replicate tier four spells’ effect or at least equal their destructive power.

As soon as Lith spotted the shaman with Life Magic, he also noticed a pillar of mana going from the ground to the sky. The storm cloud was pitch black and covered a radius of 100 meters around the shaman’s position already.

’She’s stealing my thunder, literally!’ Lith thought. He was actually scared by how fast Ragh’Ash had summoned such a huge thundercloud. It was something he was still unable to do.